Ontario · Registered charity
FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.
FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$964,622 to it, the largest being ST.ANTHONY OF PADUA MISSION AID (C$520,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. is better cushioned than half of the 110 foundations advancing religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 110 foundations advancing religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- For You Telecare Family Service (Futfs) Inclocal
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio match
- Card for Changeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 23% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (42% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell C$169k → C$108k.
From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 62% · 2019 34% · 2020 68% · 2021 59% · 2022 62% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- For You Telecare Family Service (Futfs) InclocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Card for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Benedict's Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conceptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Congregation of the Resurrection in Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hankooksaram/Canadasaram Seniors' Association in GtalocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Societyshared fundersON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 13% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.?
- FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$964,622 to it, the largest being ST.ANTHONY OF PADUA MISSION AID (C$520,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$964,622 in grants to FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC., 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC.?
- ST.ANTHONY OF PADUA MISSION AID is the largest funder on record, with C$520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SAINT FRANCIS INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register